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In an hour or so we will be heading out the door with the inevitable feeling that we have forgotten something. The kids are already packed and gone to the places they are staying so we wont have a “Home Alone” situation on our hands.
And in a matter of hours we will be flying from [...]

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I think the first time I remember meeting Michael Gallanagh was in St Mary’s Hall in Buncrana. The upstairs of the hall was, and still is, the old cinema where once a week we could all parade to the latest film that came to town. Downstairs was a small community center that was home to [...]

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There are names that people use in Irish traditional music circles that are immortal. In my home county of Donegal most of these names are fiddle players. The Donegal style of playing has something very special and unique about it. It has the feel of the driving wind and rain that can beat hard [...]

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So today I finally got Paul Rodden on the phone and what a fun show it was. I enjoyed this one more than any of the other. We talked a lot of nonsense of course as we have done for many years but we did manage to throw in some talk about music and the [...]

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Over many years, especially it seemed on cold wintry nights, we would play a regular Wednesday session in O’Flahertys Bar on Buncrana’s main street. The musicians changed from week to week. Sometimes it would be just Paul Rodden and I, occasionally Dinny McLaughlin, Michael Gallanagh or one of the younger local players like Ciaran Tourish.
At [...]

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